Changing the Universe
A star that astronomer Edwin Hubble viewed 100 years ago this month changed our concept of the universe. The star,…
Try, Try Again
NASA is scheduled to launch Psyche, a mission to study an asteroid of the same name, as early as October…
Hot Worlds
The "hot Jupiter" planet Wasp 18 orbits its parent star in this artist's concept. Hot Jupiters are giant worlds similar…
Still Going
A recent image from James Webb Space Telescope shows giant plumes and water and ice erupting from the south pole…
Heading Home
The Osiris-Rex spacecraft is scheduled to drop a capsule containing samples from the surface of the asteroid Bennu into Earth's…
Shocking Behavior
An embryonic star fires high-speed jets of particles away from its poles, forming shockwaves as it rams into gas and…
Safe Havens
A good home for future lunar colonists might be pit craters — holes in the surface that are part of…
On Their Way!
A pair of scientific satellites with widely differerent goals launches from Japan on September 7 (Japanese time). XRISM (X-Ray Imaging…
Busy Whirlpool
Millions of stars plus dark lanes of dust highlight this James Webb Space Telescope image of M51, the Whirlpool Galaxy.…
Exoplanet Totebar
Astronomers have discovered more than 5,000 planets in other star systems, most of them found by the Kepler space telescope.…